This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ... - NPR
2021年10月25日 · Iron lung respirators are prepared in an emergency polio ward at a Boston hospital in August 1955. The machines are giant ventilators about 7 feet long. Patients lie …
The Iron Lung - Science Museum
2018年10月14日 · The coffin-like cabinet respirator—better known as the 'iron lung'—was the state-of-the-art in life support technology in the first half of the 20th century. The first iron lung …
What Is an Iron Lung, and How Does It Work? - Discover Magazine
2023年8月10日 · During a polio outbreak in Australia, which literally couldn’t get standard iron lungs shipped fast enough, an engineer named Edward Both built a prototype “iron” lung using …
The use of iron lungs as treatment for polio
2018年4月5日 · Drinker and Shaw originally recommended their device to treat patients with respiratory failure from a variety of causes, including carbon monoxide or morphine poisoning …
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full - BBC
Paul had survived a serious bout of polio, but had been left quadriplegic. After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now …
Iron lungs for polio victims, 1930s-1950s - Rare Historical Photos
2016年7月31日 · During the polio epidemics, the iron lung saved many thousands of lives, but the machine was large, cumbersome, and very expensive: in the 1930s, an iron lung cost about …
Iron lung | Description, History, & Polio | Britannica
2024年10月30日 · Historically, the iron lung was used for patients affected by paralysis caused by polio; many such patients were unable to breathe on their own. After the early 1950s, following …
Man in an iron lung since age 6 dies at 78 : NPR
2024年3月13日 · Paul Alexander, who held a Guinness World Record for living the longest with the help of an iron lung, has died. Here, medical staff stand among iron lung machines in an …
How the iron lung paved the way for the modern-day intensive care ... - BBC
2024年3月15日 · With the passing of iron lung patient Paul Alexander, a look back at how the device paved the way for subsequent life-saving medical innovations. Long before the polio …
Lifesaving Breath - Harvard Medical School
2018年10月18日 · Iron lungs saved the lives of polio patients, mostly children, who weren’t able to breathe on their own as a result of the disease. The device operated similarly to a vacuum …